Travelling Film Southasia

a Mobile festival

TFSA 2025

19 Films | 9 Countries | Screen Anywhere!

Travelling Film Southasia (TFSA) started with the first Film Southasia festival held in Kathmandu in September 1997. Since then, following each biennial ‘mother festival’, a selection of films is packaged and tours regionally and globally. Over the years the TFSA package has been screened in halls, cultural centres, classrooms and museums around the world. This mobile campaign to promote and popularise Southasian documentaries stops at more than 20 international venues between the parent FSA festivals that are held every two years in Kathmandu.

SCREENINGS

TFSA’25 Screenings

Film Southasia has selected 19 exceptional nonfiction productions of the last two years to create the Traveling Film Southasia 2025 (TFSA’25) package. The films have been selected from the 47 documentaries screened at FSA’24, held in Kathmandu from November 21th to 24th, 2024.

TFSA 2025 encapsulates the flavour of the Subcontinent with films from Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Myanmar. The package includes the award winners at FSA 2024 as well as other films selected to showcase the variety, treatment and intensity that marks the world of Southasian documentaries. The running time for the entire package is approximately 12 hours and can be screened easily over 3 days with discussions.

23-24 Aug, 2025
23-24 Aug, 2025

TFSA @ KREA University

Sri City

TFSA in collaboration with Krea University and Prof. Bishnu Mohapatra (at the School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences, Krea University) screened the following films:

6-A Akash Ganga, A Flaming Forest, Abundance: Living with a Forest, Chardi-Kala, Hello Guyzz, I Found My Yellow, Mic Drop, Siege in the Air, Sometimes Even the Shore Drowns, Trans Kashmir, Wagging Tale, Whispers by the River Shore, GoHomeGOta

22 August, 2025
22 August, 2025

TFSA @ Asian College of Journalism

Asian College of Journalism, Chennai

All 19 of the TFSA '25 film package was shown to students of ACJ during the day long festival in 3 different spaces

8-9 August, 2025
8-9 August, 2025

TFSA at Peepal Grove School

Peepal Grove School, Andra Pradesh

FSA screened the following films to the students of PGS and had an interactive session with FSA director Mitu Varma.

  • A Flaming Forest
  • A Forgotten Summer
  • Abundance: Living with a Forest
  • 6-A Akash Ganga
  • Cinema pe Cinema
  • Love Like Ours
  • Mic Drop
  • Sometimes Even the Shore Drowns
  • Wagging Tale
  • Whispers by the River Shore
26-28 April, 2025
26-28 April, 2025

Parda Faash with TFSA

Asia Society of india Center and National Center for Performing arts

FSA collaborated with the Asia Society India Center (ASIC) to screen as part of ASIC's Parda Faash

  • 6-A Akash Ganga
  • Chardi Kala
  • Cinema Pe Cinema
  • Hello Guyzz
  • Sometimes Even the Shore Drowns
  • Trans Kashmir
  • Wagging Tale
  • Whispers by the River Shore
  • #GoHomeGotha
19-20 April, 2025
19-20 April, 2025

TFSA @ Arthshila Goa

Goa 

FSA screened all 19 films of the package to wrap up screenings with Arthshila at various locations around India

12-13 April, 2025
12-13 April, 2025

TFSA @ Arthshila Delhi

New Delhi

TFSA Screened all 19 films at the Arthshila, New Delhi center.

5-6 April, 2025
5-6 April, 2025

TSFA @ Arthshila Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad, Gujarat

All 19 films were screened at the Arthshila Ahmedabad venue with a few post screening discussions.

January 2025
January 2025

TFSA @ Arthshila Shantiniketan

Shantiniketan, West BEngal

Film Southasia collaborated with Arthshila Shantiniketan for the second time with a month long screenings of all 19 TFSA films!